#1 word of advice is that if you are bringing USD, make sure it is ALL in small bills. Good luck getting change for any USD currency anywhere, including banks. It just doesn't happen. If you use large USD bills when doing any transaction, you'll get change back in Pesos (and you'll always lose out on the exchange) and magically no one will ever be able to give you back USD change. One our last day we had to prepay for our taxi to the airport and all we had a $100 US bill. Our hotel, which spent all day and night accepting US bills, magically lost the ability to give us change for our bill and we ended up having to convert the bill to pesos and then being able to pay the cab driver. Incredibly frustrating and left a sour taste in my mouth.
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